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Soldiers Awaiting Orders to Fire Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops...
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Soldiers in Front of Bunkers

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers post in front of the bunkers on the Italian front in the battle zone around Lavarone in South Tyrol. These are camouflaged artillery posi...
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Military Searchlight

Date: 1914
Description: Searchlight positioned on a fort in Antwerp in order to light a section of railroad track. Water is in the foreground.
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Camouflaged Mortar

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Description: Mortar camouflaged against aerial observation. The camouflage has been prepared so carefully that one could walk by the piece at a short distance without n...
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Tirolian Battlefront

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Description: A narrow passage on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Spanish Rider

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Description: Blocking a road with Spanish Rider obstacles on the southwestern battlefront.
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Tiroler Landesschuetzen

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Description: Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) passing through a barricade in the mountains in preparation for a nighttime patrol...
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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soliders are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.
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Lavarone Plateau

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Description: On the battlefield of the Lavarone plateau. Supplies for construction of a continuous belt of wire obstacles. The plateau of Lavarone was located along th...
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Cavern of the Lavarone Plateau

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Description: Cavern built into the mountain on the Lavarone plateau. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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Homing Pigeons

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Description: Fortress homing pigeons being released.
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Glacier Fortress Position

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Description: Fortified position on a glacier at high altitude, on the Tirolian-Italian front.
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Lookouts in the Mountains

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Description: Lookouts standing guard in a 3500 meter high fort on the glacier on the Italian-Tirolian front.
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Glacier Lookouts

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Description: Lookout position at an elevation of 3500 meters observing Italian ground.
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Highest Artillery Position in Europe

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Description: The highest artillery position in Europe on Ortler (Mount Ortles).
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Highest Machinegun Position in Europe

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Description: The highest machinegun position in Europe on the Ortler glacier.
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Officers of Austrian Position in the High Mountains

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Description: The commander of a fort on the Tirolian front at an elevation of 3500 meters surrounded by his officers. 1. Major Hyza; 2. Lieutenant Joseph Aldon; 3. Lieu...
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Guarding a Glacier Fort

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Description: Guard in front of a fortified position on the glacier at an elevation of over 3500 meters.
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Glacier Fort

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Description: In front of a fortification on our highest battlefield.

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